People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very… — Peter Cameron Defeat Copy Share Image
I suppose most people would think that it was wonderful, that the world is so varied, that there is something for everyone,… — Peter Cameron Bitter Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds… — Peter Cameron Abstract Copy Share Image
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it,… — Peter Cameron Love you Copy Share Image
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as… — Peter Cameron Casts Copy Share Image
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it… — Peter Cameron Feels Copy Share Image
“Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it,… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“... she had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or… — Peter Cameron Death Copy Share Image
Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of… — Peter Cameron Adler Copy Share Image
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a… — Peter Cameron Hate Copy Share Image
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me:… — Peter Cameron Entire life Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. — Peter Cameron Believe Copy Share Image
It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman-I… — Peter Cameron Bird Copy Share Image
“Having bad experiences sometimes helps; it makes it clearer what it is you should be doing. I know that sounds very Pollyannaish… — Peter Cameron Advice Copy Share Image
I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready… — Peter Cameron Alive Copy Share Image
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it… — Peter Cameron Language Copy Share Image
I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when… — Peter Cameron Found Copy Share Image
It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable… — Peter Cameron Anatomy Copy Share Image
“Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that’s the important… — Peter Cameron Love Copy Share Image
“You’re so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn’t bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.” — Peter Cameron Life Copy Share Image
I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass… — Peter Cameron Important Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Interest Copy Share Image
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty,… — Peter Cameron Adults Copy Share Image
I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just… — Peter Cameron Enjoy Copy Share Image
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this… — Peter Cameron Ascending Copy Share Image
